Stuart Davis
Mural Detail Study No. 1, 1954
Gouache on paper
8 x 12 in
20.3 x 30.5 cm
20.3 x 30.5 cm
Signed lower right: Stuart Davis
This work is a study for the right section of related oil (mural) Allée, 1955 (cat. no. 1685)
(SDC 12/10/43 through SDC 12/12/54).
This work is a study for the right section of related oil (mural) Allée, 1955 (cat. no. 1685)
(SDC 12/10/43 through SDC 12/12/54).
(SDC 12/10/43 through SDC 12/12/54).
Provenance
The artist
The Downtown Gallery, New York
Private Collection, Greenwich, 1959 (acquired from the above)
Sale: Sotheby's, New York, 24 May 1989, lot 209B (bought in)
Private Collection, 1989 (acquired from the estate of the consignor to the above sale)
Sale: Sotheby's, New York, 2 December 2010, lot 83 (estimate: $60,000-80,000; sold for:
$50,000 premium)
Michael Altman Fine Art & Advisory Services, New York (acquired from the above sale)
Acquired by the present owner from the above in May 2011
Exhibitions
A. Boyajian, and M. Rutkoski, eds., Stuart Davis: A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. II, New Haven,
Connecticut, 2007, no. 1289, p. 680, illustrated in color